Lin Qiangsheng waited quietly in New York for the news from China. He also invited a few Chinese students, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, to buy a few personal computers, including AppleII, Tandy? TRS?80, PET?2001 computer and a bunch of electronic instruments, and bought a large independent villa in Queens, and used a few international students in a warehouse to crack the EFI system of Chrysler SLS.

Li Jing, female, 28 years old, is a doctoral student in electronics at MIT. Wang Huichang was recruited from New York University to study computer software development, and he is also a bay. Chen Jiali, who knows a little bit about electronics, is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong and came to New York to try his luck.

Lin Qiangsheng's salary here is not bad, for the sake of the face of his compatriots, he can live in a big villa with a salary of 2,000 US dollars a month for food and accommodation.

Lin Qiangsheng gave them several tasks, and there were rewards for completing each task, and if they themselves had good manpower, they could also recommend them to Lin Qiangsheng here.

The first project was to build a CAD software. CAD started in the 60s, and in the early 70s, some large companies also designed their own CAD systems. Nowadays, with the popularization of cheap Apple and other small computers, some small and medium-sized companies and individuals have also bought office computers, and the large-scale application of CAD is quietly coming.

For industrial design, the CAD system replaces the cumbersome manual drawings, making the work that requires a lot of drawings more and more simple, saving a lot of time for enterprises, and playing an increasingly important role in design and production work.

The second project was to study how to crack Chrysler's EFI system, which was very difficult for the three of them. But the reward given by Lin Qiangsheng is also generous enough, if it is cracked, they will be given a reward of $10,000 each, plus a special contribution award. Although I think it's a bit illegal to do so. Chrysler will definitely not spare them when they find out, but the reward is so generous that they can't stop it!

In the United States in this era, the electronic computer industry was full of myths of getting rich overnight. Countless young people who are struggling for the American dream are shining in this field one after another. Especially successful people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs all inspire young people to constantly bang their heads in the face of reality.

Three young Chinese people for the first pot of gold in their lives. In order to fulfill their dreams, they erected their modest bodies, and after a fierce ideological struggle, they decided to offend Chrysler once.

They procured a number of wires, sensors, and electronic instruments, connected them to the various interfaces of the EFI system, and then collected the signals and wrote the codes, and bit by bit the codes were collected into a thick book. For this difficult work, Li Jing and Wang Huichang worked day and night in the warehouse. Usually Lin Qiangsheng refuels twice in the morning and evening, and then comes back for them to continue the experiment.

Luckily, the yard of the detached villa is big enough. And there are dense trees blocking the roar of the engine.

The third project, or Lin Qiangsheng also wanted to exert his enthusiasm, he and Chen Jiali were reverse-engineering a Xerox Alto computer. Although Xerox did not promote the Alto to the market, it was easy to get one.

The retail price of such an Alto computer is as high as $50,000, and individuals or small and medium-sized companies simply cannot afford it. Large companies that want to use Alto should also think about it.

In 1974 the Alto computer was born, the first graphical interface operating system that combined all the elements of a computer. Alto uses a 3-button mouse, a bitwise display, a graphics window, and an Ethernet connection. Alto can be networked with another Alto computer or laser printer. Looking back today, it is these technologies that come together to form the basis of the information revolution.

Alto also comes with a keyboard. Word processing software, and has been equipped with a WYSIWYG text processor. From the top of this computer to the printer, the printed text looks exactly the same as the one on the monitor.

When Li Jing and Wang Huichang were rotated, they also helped to study this computer together, and if they wanted to replicate one such machine, the key was to see how to save money!

Because the cost of this machine qì is as high as 10,000 dollars. The retail price is as high as $50,000, which is unaffordable for individual families and small and medium-sized companies. Even if you make it, if you can't sell it, it's going to be over!

It's easy to get the price up, but it's very difficult to get it down.

When there was no way to do two bends and one port, Lin Qiangsheng smiled silently. Laughing and saying, "Leave it to me!" Isn't it just to reduce the cost of products? It's not easy! ”

Li Jing, Wang Huichang and Chen Jiali looked at the boss in surprise, only to see him surrounding Alto's corpse, and commented: "The chassis doesn't need such a thick steel shell material, just use thin iron sheets!" The fan doesn't need to be made of copper, copper is so expensive, it's completely okay to make a plastic one! Let me see if there is anything else that can save material."

"In fact, many spare parts can be taken back to China for production, so that the cost will be reduced a lot!" Lin Qiangsheng said excitedly.

The reason why the company set such a high price for this machine is that they have calculated the research funds and the company's operating costs. There is also this company's main business of selling laser printers, laser printers for 200,000 US dollars, and the small Alto is not looked at by Xerox executives at all.

"Boss, bay is okay!" Wang Huichang raised his hand and said, Li Jing glared at his companion, obviously this boss would not accept it.

It is still too difficult to want a computer with a graphical interface, and Lin Qiangsheng encountered countless problems in the process of copying, such as parsing Alto computer coding is a troublesome thing, and Lin Qiangsheng They still lack manpower. Lin Johnson really wants a great power like Gordon Clark!

In addition, it is necessary to understand the Smalltalk language, which is symbiotic with Alto computers. Smalltalk has Java-like automatic memory management capabilities, uses the Smalltalk language to design graphical environments, and brings many new GUI programming concepts, all the visual development platforms we see today can be regarded as the idea of Smalltalk.

Steve Jobs sent people to learn from Xerox's research institute for three days, and then spent more than $50 million for three years to develop his own graphical interface computer, the Lisa computer. Although the Lisa's selling price of up to $10,000 made it a failure. But this also sued Lin Qiangsheng. Trying to study this epoch-making type of graphical interface personal computer is not something that happens overnight, especially since he only has two or three kittens now.

Today's U.S. market is flooded with thousands of brands of home computers, all of which are miscellaneous, designed and manufactured by small companies. Most of these companies are made up of a few people who start assembling computers in some rudimentary garage-like place.

Lin Qiangsheng registered with Pentium Computer Company and bought 100 6502 chips from the electronics mall for testing, at $25 each. There are also 9-inch headset monitors, motherboards and other computer accessories. Installing the BASIC interpreter that Microsoft offers to the market at a low price allows the motherboard to have eight expansion slots like the Apple II.

Looking at the pile of loose pieces leaking out, Lin Qiangsheng immediately felt a huge sense of accomplishment!

Chen Jiali looked at the bare machine and said, "Boss, do you plan to imitate the Mac?" There are a lot of imitators on the market, and we don't give it a try, and Apple Jobs can't sue anyway! ”

Lin Qiangsheng smiled: "If you want to surpass Apple's design, it's impossible!" But boss, I also have a design idea, no need to imitate Apple II! ”

Just do it, Lin Qiangsheng immediately found a piece of paper. The design scheme of the 286 computer was drawn, and it was square and decent.

The three of them felt that although Lin Qiangsheng's design had no highlights, it was also the best choice.

Lin Qiangsheng named this computer the Pentium I computer, and also found a warehouse in Flushing for assembly and production, and he hired a group of Chinese workers, and hired Lin Meihua's husband, Wang Zuodong, as the factory director. Wang Zuodong was a chemistry graduate of Jiaotong University when he was in China, although Lin Qiangsheng's major here was a bit wrong, but there was a serious thing that was not confined to relying on his wife in a garment factory. It also made him very happy and accepted the job very happily.

The electronics market in the United States is extremely developed. If you need any spare parts, you can purchase them in the electrical chain store, and Lin Qiangsheng just buys them back and assembles them.

The Pentium 1 generation is divided into two models, respectively using 6502 processors and Z80 processors, and is marketed at a price of $268 and $288, although there are many bargains of about $300 on the market, but the publicity methods used by Lin Johnson are extremely powerful. It not only provides free maintenance for life. It also promises to replace the Besturn second-generation computer at half price.

Mr. Lin sells Pentium computers in several of the largest electronics retail stores, such as Infinity Electric House and RadioShack electrical retail chain.

The ultra-low retail price, similar to the performance of the $300 computer on the market, is the same 6502 processor, and the Pentium computer is $32 cheaper. At $268, the absolute low price is obvious.

Regardless of whether the half-price replacement of second-generation computers promised by manufacturers can be realized, but this price point has attracted many student customers and young people who hover below $300 and are a little shy in their pockets.

Young people don't care much about quality, they just think it's worth it. Lin Qiangsheng advertised in a timely manner, "The only student computer this summer, the first computer for young people, the Pentium computer, only needs 268 yuan to take home!" ”

The low-price promotion war, provoked by Lin Qiangsheng's Pentium Computer, made many computer companies that had just tasted the sweetness immediately angry.

A large number of people immediately gathered around the small counter of the New York flagship store of the Pentium computer in the electric house, and the young people who usually had some money flocked to the sales counter of the Pentium computer, and did not forget to ask at the same time: "Is it really possible to replace the second generation at half price?" When will your company come out with a second-generation computer? ”

Looking at the enthusiasm of customers, Lin Qiangsheng said loudly: "Please believe in our company!" The current next-generation computer of Pentium is already under development, and it is estimated that it will be able to be launched to the market in 81 years! As long as you bring your old computer at that time, you can replace it with our company's second-generation computer at half price! ”

"Is it okay for other companies' computers?" A young man shouted loudly, and many people immediately listened with their ears pricked up.

Lin Qiangsheng hesitated for a moment, nodded heavily, and said: "There are some companies whose computers we can't recycle, but some computer companies that have gone bankrupt, we can recycle their products!" ”

“！” Immediately there were boos from the customer crowd, but others shouted with joy. (To be continued......)